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title: "Materials and their uses"
url: "https://alstonmoorfederation.org.uk/blog/2024-02-02-19-00-46-materials-and-their-uses"
school: "Alston Moor Federation"
---

# Materials and their uses

  ![Image of Materials and their uses](https://files.schudio.com/alston-moor-federation-2/images/blog/science.PNG)  2 February 2024   [Bev Brown](https://alstonmoorfederation.org.uk/blog/author/bbrown)   [Science learning](https://alstonmoorfederation.org.uk/blog/category/science-learning)

We continued our work on materials in our Science sessions this week.

Unfortunately Cross Fell were not impressed by Mrs Brown's new inventions and were very quick to point out why they thought that a glass hammer, chocolate tea pot and cardboard shoes were not going to make her rich and famous as she had chosen the wrong materials for the job.

The quality of language used to describe the properties of the materials and explain (politely) why it wasn't a good idea to use those materials was particularly impressive as was the sorting of materials again using key vocabulary to justify the choices made.

Well done super scientists!

 [ Cross Fell's DT project](https://alstonmoorfederation.org.uk/blog/2024-02-02-18-58-16-cross-fell-s-dt-project) [Spring Term recommended read ](https://alstonmoorfederation.org.uk/blog/2024-02-05-16-30-00-spring-term-recommended-read)

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